Coroner slams lack of reforms on black deaths 1 All-round Country Edition

Correction: The Australian, Edition 1 - All-round Country FRI 10 FEB 2006, Page 002 Correction IN The Weekend Australian (February 4, 2006) a report on the coronial findings into the death in custody of Troy Samuel Crossman at Borallon Prison, near Brisbane, referred to him as an Aboriginal. Crossma...

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Published inWeekend Australian
Main Author Tony Koch, Ian Gerard
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Canberra, A.C.T News Limited 04.02.2006
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Barnes, Michael
Crossman, Annette
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Summary:Correction: The Australian, Edition 1 - All-round Country FRI 10 FEB 2006, Page 002 Correction IN The Weekend Australian (February 4, 2006) a report on the coronial findings into the death in custody of Troy Samuel Crossman at Borallon Prison, near Brisbane, referred to him as an Aboriginal. Crossman's mother, Annette Crossman, said his father was of Spanish descent, not Aboriginal. Queensland Coroner Michael Barnes, delivering findings into the March 2004 death of Troy Crossman, slammed the Beattie Government for ignoring key recommendations of the 1991 Black Deaths in Custody royal commission. Crossman, 34, hanged himself in Borallon jail, outside Brisbane, from vertical bars above his cell door which, according to the coroner, could easily have been covered with mesh to eliminate them as a hanging point.